Corsair MP300 M2 NVMe 480GB SSD Review - Product Showcase

Product Showcase

The following images were taken at high-resolution and then cropped and scaled down. The camera used was a Canon DSLR shooting 24 MegaPixel photos. Right then, off we go.
 

The sample we have at hand is the 480 GB M.2 model. Performance is listed as 1,600 MB/s for reads and 1,040 MB/sec for writes with roughly 220 IOPS at 4k random writes QD32 aligned disk access with our tested model (the numbers differ a bit per alternating volume size).
 

 
Above, the tested unit; you should easily be able to place the M.2 unit into a compatible motherboard. This stick needs PCIe 3.0 x2 / NVMe 1.3. You should, however, check out with the motherboard manufacturer if you have proper lane PCIe version with NVMe support.

While we'll look at components on the next page, we can already reveal .. the backside does not show any SMT traces, only the front side is equipped with components and NAND chips.